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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Varnish (www/varnish in ports) uses -u / -g on the command line to
> specify a user / group the child process should run as.  I'd like to
> allow the user to configure these as varnishd_user / varnishd_group in
> rc.conf.  However, ${name}_user and ${name}_group are magic in rc.subr;
> it interprets them as a user / group to su to before starting / killing
> ${name}_program.
>
> Is there any way I can work around this, other than 'unset _user _group'
> after load_rc_config?

No. However, you could use _[ug]id, which is what I did for named, and 
hasn't seemed to cause anyone confusion.


hth,

Doug

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